After writing to the ACCC late last month, a delegation of nine ISPs has met with the head of the competition watchdog to discuss their concerns regarding Telstra's conduct and a looming ADSL2+ "drought".
Prime Minister John Howard last night announced a Coalition plan to clean up Internet porn, in an effort to woo Christian voters.
A group of nine ISPs sent a letter to the ACCC accusing the telco of stifling competition and urging the regulator to throw its full force behind an investigation.
After Bruce Billson, Opposition spokesperson for Communications, claimed yesterday that the federal government is planning on cutting subsidies to rural and regional broadband providers, a number of industry sources have cast doubt on whether the policy axe has been raised over the Australian Broadband Guarantee.
The Victorian State Government is understood to have awarded a whole of government Internet services contract to service providers Pacific Internet, Optus, Eftel and Netspace.
Users from several universities and government agencies, including the Department of Defence, Monash University, the US Department of Justice and Harvard University, accessed the controversial Web site mp3s4free.net last year, a witness said during a court case yesterday.
The federal government today said it was considering legal action as it attempted to recover debts owed by Internet service provider (ISP) BushCom.
Five Internet Service Providers have been recruited by the government to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch DDoS attacks from Australia.
Shadow Minister for Communications Nick Minchin has called upon the Federal Government to end its ISP-level filtering trial "farce".
The Australian Federal Police has been called in to investigate a planned denial-of-service attack on Australian government web servers due to occur at 7pm tonight.
The Federal Government is planning a radical overhaul of telecommunications interception rules, which has some concerned it may be used to force internet service providers (ISP) to inspect customers' online activities.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy this afternoon announced the names of six ISPs that will participate in the Federal Government's internet filter trial but the nation's largest ISPs are not on the list.
South Australian internet service provider, Adam Internet, has turned on its first WiMax tower, an effort its chieftain Scott Hicks described as a "minor miracle".
The head of the US Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules on Monday that would require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally.
Uncertainty reigns about whether Stephen Conroy's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has received Enex Testlabs' report into the feasibility of ISP-level content filtering.
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